National Show!!!

The National Show is now over! We had a great time with many successes as you can see! I am so proud of everyone! We are truely blessed with our students! There are 2 missing from the photo, Pam & Morriah! One of these days we will get a full group shot! :)

With the National Show being over, it means that show season is winding down and fall leaves will start to fall then snow will follow. Come Jan. we will start working again toward the 2010 show season! Let's give thanks for a wonderful show season that was safe and fun! The ribbons were just icing on the cake, definately not the most important thing. But I'm not going to complain :)

Still Showin'!

We have had a packed summer with Haflinger and open shows! We have been to Ashland, Ohio, Horseheads, NY and a lot of places in between! It has been a VERY successful season and we will be ending the Haflinger shows with the National Show in a week and a half in Springfield, Ohio. We have some other open shows after, but that will be the end of the Haflinger show season! We should find out at the beginning of Oct. how we ended up with the Tri State Challenge. With the way this entire season has gone, we could tank the rest of the season and still be totally happy!!! :) I am so proud of all our riders and horses! We could not ask for a better group of people! Can't wait for the end of the season party when we can all kick back and relax!!! More details later!

Picture posted is from the NY show with some of the ribbons won by TLC Stables! We were only 1/2 way through Sunday's english show! Ignore the date stamp! I have to figure out how to get rid of the wrong date on my camera!!! This photo was taken 8/16/09!

Things at home are going well! All doggies and horsies are doing fine! No added infirmiries for the dogs! :) Praise the Lord! We have a training horse in and she is just a doll, her name is Serena and they call her Reeny! I was a little concerned at first as to how stubborn she was being. You had to kick her hard and smack her with the reins to even get her to move forward at a walk, but she is now walking and trotting off light leg pressure, leg yielding, backing and is just a gem! Will start cantering her very soon! Once she leaves after Nationals have another horse (non-haflinger) coming in for a month! It is one of my former students (from MANY years ago) horses that she just wants some buttons put on! I'm looking forward to it!!!

Better run! Need to get home to work horses!

Buckeye Haflinger Show Photos

Here is a photo of most of the group that showed at the Buckeye Show. L to R. Rachel & Dutch, Madalyn & Wrangler, Olivia & Alex, Will & me, Kaylee & Zac, Abbey & Caba, Katina & Trigger. These are students of mine that all showed at the Buckeye. Dutch also was with me for 60 days of training (30 last year and 30 this March). We are so proud of each and every one of these riders. Missing are Morriah who showed Zac in W/T on Sunday and Erin (Katina's daughter) who was either out grabbing a bite to eat or running on the bleachers with her brother! Erin is 6 and showed in leadline! See their photos below! Check out our website for more information on the show! I am still waiting for the results to be posted on the Buckeye's site to put that info on our site. I can't remember how everyone did! I just know they all did great! :)

Much More Upbeat!!! :)

We are home from the Buckeye Haflinger Show and everything went GREAT!!!!! It is almost impossible to improve on how we did and how our students and clients did! I can't even begin to write all our placings on one post! We were truly blessed this past weekend! Everyone did well, but there were no injuries, no horse problems etc. So God truly blessed our little farm! Praise be to Him!!

You can check out our website for a photo slide show (right on the home page). And as soon as the official results are printed I will be posting those also as I can't even begin to remember everyone's placings. But just taste: there were 4 $100 prize money classes for riding, a western horsemanship, western pleasure, english pleasure and english equitation. I won BOTH western classes and Olivia won the english equitation. And in the western pleasure $100 class there were 24 entries and we had 4 of the top 6 places from our farm! There were 22 in the horsemanship and 22 in Olivia's equitation class! Those are just a few highlights!!

I just want to thank all of our clients and students and their families for the support and hard work that they have put in this year! We are very blessed to have you all in our lives! You are not just clients and students, you are truly family!

Don't forget to check out the website! The photos are awesome! www.tlchaflingers.com .

WARNING....Not very upbeat.

This has not been my year so far. Thought everything was going well, but guess I was wrong. I have not had any horse related injuries in a LONG time, but this year, Julie decided to launch herself off my foot, then I was on a hunter pace with Jacque having a great time when another rider's horse decided it needed to act up and while I was trying to get Will out of there, it kicked me in the shin (while on was on horseback). Also, had 2 mishaps with jumping students (have not had one in years!!!). Now we have a horse to work we were not supposed to have, and have no signs of moving him out anytime soon. Horses are not moving as we only have young unbroke ones, and no time to break them! I think I may be on the verge of a nervous breakdown as I am also having issues at work (I shouldn't say issues, as I really HATE my job and my co-workers are a pain in the rear) not just at home. I'm ready to just pack up and go. Wish this was more upbeat and pleasant, but that's not me right now. I can cry at the drop of a hat, lash out at anyone and crumble at someone's comments. Sorry all. Hopefully better news soon.

Just needed to vent.

Almost a month again! :)

We have been very busy with work and the horses! Everything seems to be coming together well for show season this year. Entries have been sent for the Buckeye Haflinger Show in July. We have had students hit their first shows of the season and did VERY well! Very proud of them both!!! Way to go Jacque & Madalyn!

Just went to a hunter pace yesterday with Jacque had a great time until another rider's horse decided it didn't like Will (when it was acting up, not Will) and kicked at him, but instead kicked me in the shin!!! Youch! So as of today, I am hobbling around. This has not been a good year for me as one of our 2 year olds decided to act a fool and launch herself into the field off my right foot a few weeks ago! I haven't had this many mishaps with the horses in a LONG time! So I have spent a couple Sunday nights sitting on the couch with ice on my leg or foot! :) Hope this is not an indication of how this year is going to go. If it is, I may postpone Yager's training, as I don't even want to think about what could happen there! :)

Lessons are going well and I have more students this year than I have had in a long time! I am having a blast!

Reining lessons are going great! Will is really coming into his own and starting to click! Yeah!!! We are hoping to have our first reining show this season maybe next Sunday. Will have to see how the weekend shapes up! ;) The reining show would be in Findlay!

Better get back to work. I will try better to update more often!

Wow, has it been over a month?

Time does fly doesn't it? I can't believe it has been over a month since my last post. Things have been BUSY BUSY around here with finally moving Will home, rearranging stalls as we purchased yet another horse at the Mt. Hope sale in March and now do not have room to bring Wally home. Not sure what we are going to do! We'll have to see.........

Well Friday brings a rareity to our lives. Terry and I are off 2 days in a row together and will be leaving the farm in very capable hands, Abbey! Abbey is one of my students and will be graduating from high school soon and is a great hand with a horse. So she is coming in Friday afternoon and staying with the brood until we return on Sat. Where are we going you may ask...... The Indiana Haflinger Sale! Big surprise! We are going to stay in the trailer on Friday night since we will have Tess (the spoiled corgi) with us! At least we will have a couple of days together and away from the hustle and bustle of home. But I will be ready to get home come Sat.as I don't like to be away too long. Being away for 3 days for Nationals just about does me in! I am such a homebody!

As an update on things going on in our lives.....everything is normal, lessons going well, jobs are a pain (for both of us) but someday that will change. Hopefully sooner than later ;) Arena is getting back into shape and horses are starting to get worked more. We are really looking forward to getting the young ones started. Libby will be started under saddle and in harness this year while we may start Jack with driving this year also. We are still trying to decide who else besides Will, will be going to the shows with us as halter horses.

Well better get back to work! I'll try to do better with my updates!